Comment on Meta fined $102 million for storing passwords in plain text
octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 12 hours ago
Meta: The company whose products you use when you absolutely, positively don’t give a shit that they are the worst example of the worst nightmare of a consumer-hostile, privacy-invading, you-are-the-product, tech company. Yes, even worse than Microsoft.
werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
If it’s free, you are the product.
joshcodes@programming.dev 7 hours ago
This just doesn’t hold up in 2024. BMW charge you 60k for a vehicle and chuck a subscription on top. Apple, Google and Samsung charge between hundreds and thousands for their phones and advertise with their own agencies. Amazon forces paying customers to wade through bullshit products to finally buy the one they want, customers who bought prime and who didn’t.
Everyone is the product even if you pay. Stop saying this please.
daddy32@lemmy.world 7 minutes ago
Sorry, but that’s irrelevant to “if it’s free…” implication. Those are just unrelated ways companies made suckers out of their customers.
tyler@programming.dev 1 hour ago
It’s not an either or. It’s _if it’s free, you’re the product _. That’s it. It’s not saying anything about if you pay for it.
Moah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 hours ago
Well now even when you pay you’re the product.
Serinus@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
I haven’t paid for Lemmy yet. Well, other than volunteer time.
I guess if we want something where we’re not the product, we have to build it ourselves.
vithigar@lemmy.ca 9 hours ago
Even with any potential monetization by anyone… you kind of are? You are part of the community here, and that’s what people come here for. Lemmy’s community is the product it offers, and you are a piece of it.
Serinus@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
I wish more people on Reddit and Twitter would recognize that and use more discretion with who they’re creating a product for.
NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
What makes you so sure that the person hosting your instance isn’t monetizing it or trying to find a way to monetize it in the background?
Maybe they’re selling all these posts and DMs to OpenAI?
Serinus@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Lemmy.world is a registered non-profit organization. fedihosting.foundation/about-us/
It’s easy enough to use the API to scrape the site and use all the posts and DMs for free. It’d be odd for OpenAI to pay for it.
Please do recognize that anything you post publicly IS public, whether that’s Facebook or here. The lack of an API isn’t going to stop places from scraping your data off of Facebook or Reddit either.
Your DMs here are explicitly public. That’s part of the federation between servers. If you want truly private DMs, there are options for that.
WarMarshalEmu@lemm.ee 9 hours ago
They don’t need to sell access… It’s free. Assume anything you post here is getting sniffed up by everyone.